Monday, December 5, 2011

No surprise - the preacher posse did the ballot box in smashing fashionSee, in those newly trashed sec sec secular despotries that got all Arab Sprang"d - only the m"sk and the soccer stadiums were prett much the only spots where cats could hook up in large numbers and let off steam via heated jawflappingsanssecret police hauling cats off for secret prisons, secret trials and secret executions.As the best org'd - with legit anti regime bona fides - the preacher fans have scored big avec free, fair and open elections on or about sunny sunni Suez in Aegypt, Morroco and Tunisia.

Welcome to the age of "Political m"Hammedism",
which may prove to be one of the most lasting legacies of the Arab
spring. It is not only in Egypt that an unprecedented "Slamist political
moment is playing out. In the recent Tunisian elections the moderate Ennahda was the biggest winner, while Morocco has elected
its first "Slamist prime minister, Abdelilah Benkirane.

With Libya and Yemen in the wings - seems semi sorta likely that Polislam will dominate the ME

Will Arab Spring become an Anti Girl, Anti Xian Spring? Will pious intolerance flame up and out of control?How well can various preacher fanboys do problem solving, Writ of state or even keeping the trash picked up? Will things actually get more better - like in Aegypt?

"The short 90-year history of independent Egypt is that it got worse.
Mubarak’s Egypt was worse than King Farouk’s Egypt, and what follows
from last week’s vote will be worse still. If you’re a Westernized urban
woman, a Coptic Christian, or an Israeli diplomat with the goons
pounding the doors of your embassy, you already know that."

Where old regimes survive, they will be weak; where new ones come in,
they will be weaker, because old institutions can be destroyed more
quickly than new ones can be built. Both new and old leaders must play
to public opinion, and this may lead to rash, incoherent foreign
policies, as politicians make campaign promises that are not in their
countries’ interests to fulfill.

Consider - failed nat'lism escorted in Polislam - yet will it not become unlike the failed despotries they replaced?

It is possible, of course, that their experiment of
reconciling "Slamic principles with modern statecraft and
globalized economies will fail. It may even result in religious
tyrannies and the exodus of secular and liberal elites.

“Our arab people, of every nation,
struggle for the restoration of their basic rights, liberty, and
sovereignty. But we do not have sufficient experience with
democracy … We fight and overthrow dictators, but not
dictatorship itself.”

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